Changing Urban Education
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Reflective exercises, interviews, chapter summaries and useful websites will encourage and support student learning and the application of new concepts. Recent debates and developments are considered, including:
* The city as a social, cultural and economic resource
* Virtual communities
* The impact of the forces of globalisation on urban education
* Challenging schools and urban policy
* Mobile urban learning
Changing Urban Education is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students on education studies and related courses.
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Simon Pratt-Adams is Head of the Department of Education in the Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education at Anglia Ruskin University, UK.
Elizabeth Burn is a retired academic with substantial experience of teaching in urban schools and higher education. She has researched extensively in the field of social justice and is now involved in setting up a community theatre for disadvantaged teenagers.
Meg Maguire is Professor of Sociology of Education at King's College London, UK.
Richard Race is Senior Lecturer in Education and MA Education Programme Convener in the School of Education at Roehampton University, UK. He is co-author of Advancing Race and Ethnicity in Education (2014) with Vini Lander and is co-series editor of Policy and Practice in the Classroom with Alaster Scott Douglas and Barbara Read.
